I took a few days off blogging – effectively a long weekend – expecting nothing to have happened or been newsworthy over that period. Alas, how wrong I was.
As I wrote my last post on Friday I had no idea that the result of Thursday’s council elections in England and Wales were going to be anywhere near as good as they turned out to be. It’s fair to say that new Labour died on May 2nd. I also find the comparisons to John Major a tad unfair especially as Major at least had a mandate to be leader having won a leadership contest. I do find myself thoroughly agreeing with Euan McColm in the News of the World (not available online unfortunately) that Brown has only got himself to blame and barring a mistake of huge proportions David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I was also thoroughly delighted to see Boris winning the London Mayoral Election on Friday. I do believe that Livingstone is a talented politician but him being voted out of office was another vote against Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. I even read Tony Benn blaming Thursday’s results on ‘Blairism’ and even the most ardent acolytes of Blair must accept that fact.
I think the biggest surprise of the weekend is over Labour’s stance on an independence referendum. I’m curious if she even knows what it is she is doing. When reading the article in the Sunday Mail, found here, I have to admit I didn’t really believe what I was reading but it quickly became apparent that Mark Aitken had a wee scoop on his hands judging by Monday’s coverage of the story at least.
As I wrote my last post on Friday I had no idea that the result of Thursday’s council elections in England and Wales were going to be anywhere near as good as they turned out to be. It’s fair to say that new Labour died on May 2nd. I also find the comparisons to John Major a tad unfair especially as Major at least had a mandate to be leader having won a leadership contest. I do find myself thoroughly agreeing with Euan McColm in the News of the World (not available online unfortunately) that Brown has only got himself to blame and barring a mistake of huge proportions David Cameron will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
I was also thoroughly delighted to see Boris winning the London Mayoral Election on Friday. I do believe that Livingstone is a talented politician but him being voted out of office was another vote against Gordon Brown’s Labour Party. I even read Tony Benn blaming Thursday’s results on ‘Blairism’ and even the most ardent acolytes of Blair must accept that fact.
I think the biggest surprise of the weekend is over Labour’s stance on an independence referendum. I’m curious if she even knows what it is she is doing. When reading the article in the Sunday Mail, found here, I have to admit I didn’t really believe what I was reading but it quickly became apparent that Mark Aitken had a wee scoop on his hands judging by Monday’s coverage of the story at least.
1 comments:
Yep, I also thought someone was blowing things out of proportion with the Sunday mail comment.
It turns out that someone was Mark Aitken but he was 'bang on' as we all know by now.
You should take more days off blogging, it seems to do the trick in getting things happening....!
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